Year: 2018

War in Het Hurkske – Erp

On September 17, 1944, Operation Market-Garden began. The goal was to capture all bridges over rivers and canals up to Arnhem, allowing for a swift advance into Germany’s industrial Ruhr region. The Allied estimate was that the war would be over b…

Brindisi: a welcoming city for thousands of years.

There are many legends about the foundation of Brindisi. The most beautiful of which is the story of the mythical Brento, son of Eracle (Hercules) , who shaped the city in his own image: the two branches of the harbor on his arms, the peninsula between …

Pawhuska

Pawhuska (Osage: 𐓄𐓘𐓢𐓶𐓮𐓤𐓘, hpahúska, lit.: White Hair; Chiwere: Paháhga) is a city in and the county seat of Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. It was named after the 19th-cen…

Fairytale Graveyard

Discover Fairytale Graveyard in Seyé Municipality, Mexico: A field of whimsical floats, where all of your favorite childhood stories have been put out to pasture.

OKC Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts Décoratifs, and sometimes referred to simply as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before Worl…

The Catholic Church in Oklahoma

1830 to 1875The first Catholic presence in Oklahoma, then known officially as the Indian Territory, was in 1830. Charles Van Quickenborne, a Jesuit priest, traveled from St. Louis, Missouri, to minister to Osage Nation people in the Cabin Cree…

Awirs

Awirs (en wallon Les Awires ou ẳs Awèrs) est une section de la commune belge de Flémalle située en Région wallonne dans la province de Liège. C’&eacut…

Nobel Ice Cream

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

Prato della Valle

Discover Prato della Valle in Padua, Italy: One of the largest squares in Europe contains an entire artificial island.

Church of Santa Margherita

Discover Church of Santa Margherita in Venice, Italy: This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

Soumagne, Belgium

Soumagne (Walloon: Soûmagne) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Liège, Belgium. On September 1, 2008, Soumagne had a total population of 15,894. The total area is 27.14 km² …

Palais de l’Île

Discover Palais de l’Île in Annecy, France: Fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou River.

Isle of May Beacon

Discover Isle of May Beacon in Isle of May, Scotland: This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

Old Time Amusements

Discover Old Time Amusements in Brighton, England: A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

Oupeye

EtymologyUpeye (1176) The suffix -eye is a deformation of -acas meaning “property of”. The prefix comes from Ulpius, a Gallo-Roman gentilic.  Oûpêye in Walloon. The CommuneAs of 1 November 2018, the municipality had 25,408 i…

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